05-03-2011, 07:15 PM | #1 |
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Better Book Titles...
Stumbled upon this article in the Guardian...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/book...scribe-content "Should The Great Gatsby really be called Drink Responsibly?" Refers to a website http://betterbooktitles.com/ that in its own words... "is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through all the cryptic crap, and give you the meat of the story in one condensed image. Now you can read the greatest literary works of all time in mere seconds!" and a taster from the newspaper article:- "F Scott Fitzgerald's classic 'The Great Gatsby' becomes, in Wilbur's hands, simply: 'Drink Responsibly'. Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' is renamed 'White People Ruin Everything'. And I do like how Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach' can be easily summed up as 'It's Okay If Giant Fruit Kills Your Aunts So Long As They Were Bitches'. Who can't empathise with Wuthering Heights retitled: 'My Teacher Ruined This'? Would more people study classics if Plato's Symposium was really called 'Horny Drunk Guys Invent Philosophy'? And is Wilbur risking a fantasy fatwah by renaming George RR Martin's 'Game of Thrones' as 'Shakespeare Minus the Good Writing?'" Coops |
05-03-2011, 09:05 PM | #2 |
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I just figure everything of Dahl's can be summed up as "Evil Adults Die Horribly". Not bad, actually...
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05-04-2011, 05:04 PM | #3 |
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haha. thanks for sharing this. Some of these are real gems :-)
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05-05-2011, 12:47 AM | #4 |
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05-05-2011, 01:52 AM | #5 |
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Thanks!
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